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William K. Black was a federal regulator during the Savings and Loan crisis and appears in Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story'
I get President Obama's "regulatory review" plan, I really do. His game plan is a straight steal from President Clinton's strategy after the Republican's 1994 congressional triumph. Clinton's strategy was to steal the Republican Party's play book. I know that Clinton's strategy was considered brilliant politics (particularly by the Clintonites), but the Republican financial playbook produces recurrent, intensifying fraud epidemics and financial crises. Rubin and Summers were Clinton's offensive coordinators. They planned and implemented the Republican game plan on finance. Rubin and Summers were good choices for this role because they were, and remain, reflexively anti-regulatory. They led the deregulation and attack on supervision that began to create the criminogenic environment that produced the financial crisis.
The zeal, crude threats, and arrogance they displayed in leading the attacks on SEC Chair Levitt and CFTC Chair Born's efforts to adopt regulations that would have reduced the risks of fraud and financial crises were exceptional. Just one problem -- they were wrong and Levitt and Born were right. Rubin and Summers weren't slightly wrong; they put us on the path to the Great Recession. Obama knows that Clinton's brilliant political strategy, stealing the Republican play book, was a disaster for the nation, but he has picked politics over substance.
I explained in a prior column how the anti-regulators made the crisis possible and caused the loss of over 10 million jobs.
Anti-regulation proved to be a profoundly negative sum "game" in the financial sphere. Both principals -- the home borrower and the lender -- lost (negative Pareto optimality). The unfaithful "agents," however, made out like bandits.
Effective financial regulation is essential to protect honest firms and consumers from the frauds -- it is distinctly positive sum. The primary purpose of financial regulation is to limit fraud. President Obama, Summers, and OMB do not understand this fundamental aspect of financial regulation -- limiting fraud. Consider this portion of the President's letter:
This is the lesson of our history: Our economy is not a zero-sum game. Regulations do have costs; often, as a country, we have to make tough decisions about whether those costs are necessary.
Voluntary transactions should be positive sum -- both parties are typically made better off. Fraud causes negative sum transactions. Regulators are the "cops on the beat" in finance. If cheaters prosper, then "private market discipline" drives honest firms and officers out of the marketplace. Vigorous financial regulation is essential to the effective prosecution of elite criminals. Many of the best financial regulations impose virtually no cost. The traditional underwriting rules, for example, would have been exceeded by any honest, competent bank. Indeed, the rules reduced costs to honest firms. The rules imposed material costs only on dishonest managers -- and that reduces costs to hones firms and managers. Net, underwriting rules produce enormous net-benefits. That is equivalent to saying that they have a negative cost. The underwriting rules designed primarily to reduce fraud also reduce losses from incompetence, unrecognized risk, and mistake. This means that financial rules designed primarily to reduce fraud are essential to convert the negative sum (fraudulent) transactions that would prevail absent regulation into positive sum (honest) transactions. Because fraud can impose severe "negative externalities," this transaction-based analysis dramatically understates the net cost savings of effective safety and soundness regulation.
Obama's proposal and the accompanying OMB releases do not mention the word or the concept of fraud. Despite an "epidemic" of fraud led by the bank CEOs (which caused the greatest crisis of his life), Obama cannot bring itself to use the "f" word. The administration wants the banks' senior officers to fund its reelection campaign. I've never raised political contributions, but I'm certain that pointing out that a large number of senior bank officers were frauds would make fundraising from them awkward.
President Obama's explanation for his regulatory review program warrants detailed analysis in multiple columns. He decided to place it in the Wall Street Journal as a symbol of his efforts to placate Wall Street (only two sentence of his letter refer to small businesses).
My first column discussing his regulatory review program focuses on gaps in financial "safety and soundness" regulation. This is an area I lived, research, write about, and teach. (If you look at my bio you will see that public administration experts write about my experiences as a regulator.) Obama entitled his letter: "Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System." Where have we heard that mantra before? When President Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 Larry Summers proclaimed that the GLB Act was "a major step forward to the 21st century."
Clinton's two great deregulatory failures were the GLB Act and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The CFMA deliberately created a regulatory "black hole" for credit default swaps (CDS) by removing the CFTC's authority to regulate CDS and a regulatory black hole in the trading of energy derivatives that helped Enron's cartel produce the California energy crisis of 2001. The titles of both of these deregulatory acts included the word "modernization" and the great lie was that the acts they were repealing were archaic. The claim was that we needed a regulatory system designed for the 21st-Century. Summers, Obama's principal economic advisor, framed Obama's latest deregulatory foray.
Summers and Rubin remain unwilling to admit that their anti-regulatory financial policies were disastrous. Here's what Obama said in late 2008 about the decisive role that anti-regulatory dogma played in causing the ongoing financial crisis.
"John McCain has spent decades in Washington supporting financial institutions instead of their customers," [Obama] told a crowd of about 2,100 at the Colorado School of Mines. "So let's be clear: What we've seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed."
Obama's subtitle is designed to illustrate stupid regulation: "If the FDA deems saccharin safe enough for coffee, then the EPA should not treat it as hazardous waste." The example is supposed to be self-evident, clearly only regulators could do something so stupid. But the facts are inconvenient to Obama's scorn -- and this is his shining example, the best that the scores of OMB staff that review thousands of regulations could come up with to support this major administration initiative. This is the dumbest rule they found. Obama's statement about saccharin may seem logical, but it is not. Animal studies originally showed that saccharine was carcinogenic in doses that a heavy consumer might experience. The EPA, therefore, classified the disposal of large amounts of saccharine as toxic. Subsequent studies are now interpreted as showing that saccharine is unlikely to be carcinogenic at such dosage levels. The EPA's classification of saccharine as a hazardous substance for waste disposal purposes based on its carcinogenic effects in small doses was logical. The logic does not work automatically in reverse. An ingredient can be safe to consume by an individual consumer in extremely low doses yet hazardous in far larger doses. To sum it up, the supposedly dumb rule Obama chose as his lead example did not kill any meaningful number of jobs, was based on the best science then available, and wasn't dumb.
Consider the overall logic of Obama's approach to regulation. Under his logic during the campaign, the imperative need was to end the anti-regulatory dogma that was the disastrous product of "an economic philosophy that has completely failed." When he became President, however, Obama placed Summers and Rubin, the leading Democratic Party purveyors of that completely failed philosophy, in charge of the administration's financial regulatory policies. The administration's policies are largely anti-regulatory. The most important indicators of this point are the things not in the President's regulatory review program. Obama says that the lack of financial regulation made possible the financial crisis, but his regulatory review program does not require the administration to search out areas of inadequate regulation. Here is the closest Obama comes: "Where necessary, we won't shy away from addressing obvious gaps...." Huh? The vital task is to find the non-obvious gaps. Why, two years into his presidency, has the administration failed to address "obvious gaps"? The administration does not need Republican approval to fill obvious gaps in regulation. Even when Obama finds "obvious gaps" in regulatory protection he does not promise to act. He will act only "where necessary." We know that Summers, Rubin, and Geithner rarely believe that financial regulation is "necessary." Even if Obama decides it is "necessary" to act he only promises to "address" "obvious gaps" -- not "end" or "fill" them.
In the financial sphere, Obama has allowed "obvious gaps" to persist and, by listening to Summers' continued embrace of an "economic philosophy that has completely failed" he has even made the gaps worse. Obama's regulatory review program does not promise to fix any of the anti-regulatory actions taken or allowed to fester and grow under his administration. I provide twelve specific examples of these obvious gaps in financial regulation which have persisted and grown during this Obama's first two years in office. (There are more than a dozen gaps, but it is premature to address some of them, e.g., Basel III, the Volcker rule, and the new consumer financial protection agency, because there is so much uncertainty about the rules that will emerge.) The gaps addressed here are those where Obama has not even proposed to take an action that could prove effective.
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Something that offers both a series of joys and embarrassments is making it through your teenage years and being able to gaze back at them, taking stock of all that you've been through. Brimming with the awkwardness of puberty, the confusion brought on by sudden tidal wave of hormones and the desperation brought on by a need to fit in, it is easy to pass off our early years as tragic messes that would be best dealt with by hiding them one of our mind's closets. A trial by fire on the pathway out of hell. Paradoxically those years also offer up some of the most fun and carefree times that we'll experience in our lives. What does all this have to do with Nihilistic's Conan on Xbox 360? Well the game parallels the lives of the masses of teens across the globe, offering up a great deal of embarrassing, slightly immature, yet awesomely fun experiences.
Originally created by Robert E. Howard, it appears Conan was a means by which the author could externalize his desires to escape his nerdy body and the restrictions that society placed upon it. And with the stereotypical audience for videogames doesn't that sound like the perfect premise game?! This interactive adaptation sticks to the original short stories and the Dark Horse and Marvel comics of the late 20th century, rather than the barbarian's celluloid adaptations.
Conan's tale follows him as he awakens on a beach, suffering short term amnesia, after battling a decidedly villainous sorcerer named Graven. As he attempts to piece together the events that led him to be bobbing about in the ocean's brine he begins a quest that parallels this same internal sojourn, attempting to obtain some segments of magical armour that were previously his own. Although initially promising, the game's story becomes a little lacklustre as the game progresses. The scenarios of the different chapters sometimes seem appear out of nowhere, as if a few pages of the screenplay were torn out between the two sections.
Without a doubt, Conan draws immediate comparisons to God of War, mimicking much of the game's overtly brutal and sexualized content. Its hack and slash gameplay, macho posing, and fixed camera conjure up definite memories of the title that is one of the defining contemporary action games. And in many aspects it comes close to delivering gameplay analogous with that available in the series, along with the enjoyment, and is definitely one of the better games in that style available today.
Controls consist of the fairly standard heavy and light attacks, along with grappling and jumping. To flesh out these basic attacking skills a series of combination moves have been implemented, and the list of these is extensive to say the least. Earning experience throughout levels by downing certain enemies, rescuing helpless females, and searching out chests scattered throughout levels, new skills can be obtained, usually centering on combos. Quick attacks can also be enacted when an enemy's strike is blocked at the last minute, resulting in a quick, and generally gory, death to the receiver of your blade's edge.
Different weapon choices also go a great way in varying the ways in which you can slice and dice your enemies. Essentially providing you with a selection of fighting stances, weapons can be picked up along the way. These vary little throughout, but with the amount of brutality that can be enacted with each there's little to worry about. Dual wielding, double handed, sword and shield and single sword are all options when it comes to arming yourself. The unlockable combos fall into these four categories too, meaning that there's a list of dozens of moves to clear your way of foes.
As you regain pieces of Conan's magical armour special magical attacks are unlocked. Things such as unleashing a flock of devilish birds or a fiery rain on your opponents add yet another mode of dispatching them.
With all the finesse of a teenager's first forays into the world of love, Conan has some incredibly embarrassing and awkward moments. Rescuing the 'bonus' women, chained up for some unknown reason throughout the levels is one of the most fantastically pubescent aspects of the game. Their topless figures, barely clothed lower bodies, and idiotic speeches of appreciation, such as, 'crush me with your love', made us remember what it was like to be 13 again. However our fears of being walked in on centred on how these scenes may have degraded our constant cries that videogames are slowly growing up, rather than the embarrassment of being sprung exercising our teenage sexual curiosity.
As daft as rescuing scantily clad females and consistently slicing foolish enemies in two is, Conan's gameplay is, almost embarrassingly, fun. The brevity in variation of gameplay does hold back the enjoyment offered up by the game a little, but eviscerating swathes of attackers, however macabre the concept is, allows for some fantastically satisfying guilty pleasures.
Outside of combat, spatial puzzles, such as knocking down obstructions with ballista bolts and cutting chains to access new areas, rarely provide any great cerebral strain. These usually scream out their solutions with sparkling interactive points and are usually mere roadblocks, but they do allow the game to mix up some of the action and to vary the pacing of the levels a little. Not all aspects of navigating your environment are enjoyable however.
Leaping through sections can be a little problematic and at times when launching from ledge to ledge. We had the experience of plummeting back down to the bottom of these platforming hells several times mainly due to average camera placement and slightly non responsive jumping controls.
There's a great deal of inspiration drawn from the comics when it comes to Conan's visual stylings. Its art direction is generally brilliant. The environments and all that is contained within them are typically lush and well fleshed out. Most things look simply stunning when quickly glanced at (especially the various ways in which you can dissect your enemies and the mess this leaves behind). However when looked at more closely some of the game's textures are a little unpolished. Some come across as being a little unfinished, especially things such as flowing water which occasionally looks a little like pixelated ash as it pours out of carefully placed pipes. The game still manages to hold up extremely well when compared to other titles out there though.
Feeling a little less polished than the games of the God of War series, the Barbarian's first outing on this current generation of consoles does a great job of providing some great hack and slash gameplay. Conan may have moments of awkwardness and be slightly derivative, just like our teenage years, but just as with this period of our lives, when compared to the fun that is available within, these shortcomings pale in comparison.

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Pregnant women and patients with diabetes, heart disease or a bad chest are more likely to be put in danger if they catch flu.
NHS Bury's seasonal flu vaccination campaign is now well under way, and eligible patients are advised not to delay and to arm themselves against the virus now.
The seasonal flu vaccine is available for free on the NHS to those patients at risk of developing serious complications from flu.
Complications of flu mostly affect people in high risk groups such as people aged 65 and over; those living with a long term medical condition such as diabetes, heart disease or a bad chest, and pregnant women.
Carers and those living in nursing or residential homes are also being offered the jab.
Although the majority of normally healthy people will recover from flu within a few days, patients in high risk groups are more likely to have a bad case of flu and develop a serious complication such as a chest infection, bronchitis or pneumonia.
This year, Bury's seasonal flu public information campaign is being linked to NHS Bury's successful Care about the cost campaign. Patients are being urged to 'care about the cost to their health' and to do all they can to prevent catching flu by protecting themselves with the vaccination.
Dr. Peter Elton, Director of Public Health for NHS Bury said: "Flu vaccinations within GP practices are now well underway. Thank you to all those patients that have already had the vaccine, and to our colleagues within GP practices for all their efforts to vaccinate their patients in advance of the winter months. It's really important that patients that are eligible to have the vaccine get protected now, and that they don't wait for an outbreak. The vaccine is safe, saves lives and offers protection for a whole year."
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Beautiful oceanfront condo--6th. Floor King bed-Master bedroom Daybed (Sleeps 2)-2nd. bedroom Completely remodeled All new appliances 3 TV's, eat-in kitchen nook Computer availibility-DSL, Cable TV, Patio chairs and tables. Ceiling fans.
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The condo does Day Trips to the Hard Rock Casino. They provide lunch and $30.00 worth of chips for the slot machines!!!!!
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have found so far that energy comes in a number of different forms
and that we can make a list of 10 types of energy to help us identify
and talk about energy.
only does energy come in different types, but it is constantly changing
from one type into another. As we will see, this changing from one
type of energy to another is the basis for most of our household
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science fiction stories have speculated that the ultimate form of
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energy that is released turns into the mechanical energy of the
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UNECE Environment Ministers have been continuously highlighting the importance of environmental information for policymaking and public awareness. They called for improving monitoring capacities in the region, especially in countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and for the use by all countries of indicator-based mechanisms for periodic environmental assessments and the evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental policies and decision-making.
In 2000, the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy established a Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (WGEMA). The Working Group contributed to the preparation by the European Environment Agency (EEA) of pan-European assessment reports on the environment for "Environment for Europe" (EFE) Ministerial Conferences and developed a series of recommendations and guidelines on strengthening national environmental monitoring and information systems, and improving the preparation of indicator-based assessment reports in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
The Belgrade EfE Conference of 2007 invited UNECE to continue its efforts, in cooperation with EEA and other partners, to make monitoring an effective instrument in environmental policymaking in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe.
In compliance with the Belgrade Ministerial Declaration, WGEMA focuses on capacity-building activities, including those on the modernization and upgrading of national monitoring networks and information systems, in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe. Its members include officials responsible in their countries for environmental monitoring and assessment. It involves in its activities experts from statistical agencies and representatives of major groups, including business and industry, the scientific community and environmental citizens' organizations.
WGEMA cooperates with other international forums and networks, such as the EEA, UNEP, UNDP, UNSD, the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, relevant multilateral environmental agreements, especially those of UNECE, and the OECD.
It helps the European Environment Agency to prepare pan-European assessment reports for Ministerial Conferences "Environment for Europe". It also helps countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia to build their environmental observation capacities and harmonize their approaches with those applied in EEA.
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Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
May 11-16, 2014
Congratulations to finalists who have been selected to attend the Intel ISEF 2014 and to the fair directors, teachers, parents and student observers who will accompany them for an unforgettable experience this coming May.
Becoming a finalist at the Intel ISEF is an honor won at an SSP-affiliate science fair. Each fair is allotted a certain number of projects that they may bring in a given year. Once finalists have been awarded, a fair will register an Official Party. An Official Party includes an Adult-in-Charge (the chaperone and designated point person for the students), and other individuals - adults, teachers, student observers and any other persons that fall within the Official Party size limit.
As preparations are finalized, information for those traveling to Intel ISEF 2014 will be populated on this site. We encourage you to check back periodically.
Information for all attendees
- Intel ISEF 2014 project ID listing: see a list of all assigned project IDs
- Important Dates for Intel ISEF 2014
- Downtown Los Angeles Information: Visit this website to learn more about downtown LA, about things to do, dining, transit, travel tips and more.
- Intel ISEF Housing and Shuttle & Airport Transportation information. Please make sure to coordinate with your fair director as he or she may be arranging housing and transport for your fair.
- Intel ISEF 2014 Preliminary Program (pdf): This document provides a brief overview of the week. As you plan your visit, please pay particular attention to the core activities of each day and the deadlines associated with setting up projects. Please plan to have your finalists' projects set-up before taking tours.
- Symposia take place during the Intel ISEF and are sessions that allow teachers, fair directors, other interested adults the opportunity to present and discuss issues related to science education and, the management of science fairs as well as to highlight successful practices in education and in scientific and engineering research.
- Tours: Red Line Tours will be coordinating a slate of tours for attendees to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for 2014. Intel ISEF is not financially supporting or responsible for any of the tours. Any reservations made are at the expense of the attendee. Attendees are encouraged to book their tours ahead of time through the web site as some tours will sell out. A tour desk will be open during Intel ISEF in the registration complex where attendees can learn more and sign up on site as well.
- SSP Program Harassment Policy: We ask that everyone review this policy carefully so that any concerns are addressed immediately.
- Awards at Intel ISEF
Information for Adults
- The Value of Attending Intel ISEF (pdf)
- Adult in Charge Checklist: The Adult-in-Charge takes a leadership role for chaperoning students within their respective Official Party.
- Official Party Informational Flyer: Information for affiliated fair official party members.
- Official Party Registration: System for Fair Directors (or Contact Persons) to register their Official Party, certify finalists and report on the operations of their fair. This is where fair directors can find information on how many people can be included in the Official Party (including Student Observers) and how much registration will cost.
- Student Observer Experience and Volunteer Opportunity: Students selected by their fair to attend Intel ISEF as a student observer will have the opportunity to attend a trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific on Wednesday, May 14 and volunteer for Educational Outreach Day on Thursday, May 14.
Information for Finalists
- Finalist Checklist: Things you need to know and do before attending Intel ISEF.
- Being a Finalist at Intel ISEF: Things you need to know during Intel ISEF.
- Shipping your Project: How to get your project to Intel ISEF.
- AP Testing at Intel ISEF (is now closed)


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